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Prologue

The human experience is, in my opinion, the most fascinating, profound, and powerful of all encounters. What people say, what they feel, how they think, what they do to each other can literally alter the course of history and time. This gift, this special gift we have been given, to think and talk and change a thought or influence a mind just by the words we say or the things we do.

If you walk into a bank and rob it, causing harm to other people, you have created a dark hole in the arena of time and space. If in this moment, you take a life or do damage to something or someone, you have shifted the course of time and created a chain of events that will define and burn this moment in the history of our lives.

Those who will hear your name or see you will have contempt for your changing the flow of their lives, causing anger and pain, not joy and positive energy.

If you rush into a burning building and save the life of a child, you have also caused the same shift in time and space. This is a positive shift. People are happy, grateful, proud to know you, and inspired by your action.

When two leaders talk and their feelings are not understood or expressed correctly, it could have a negative effect on their relationship even to the brink of conflict, civil unrest, or even…war.

Communication, negotiation, understanding, compassion, respect, tolerance, and honesty are the elements that allow the concept of diplomacy to exist and function successfully in this society.

This book is a collection of thoughts, theories, experiences, and situations that I have encountered. I have walked through many doors in my life—almost as many as there are stars in the sky.

My journey has given me the chance to embrace the energy of the universe and the ultimate knowledge and wisdom that exist in understanding the power of diplomacy and the art of communication.